CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS WATERS RISING FAST

[kpete]

January 14, 2006
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS WATERS RISING FAST

(ED. NOTE: The following was co-written by Karen and Dick Bell, after a morning discussion about people and groups floundering between despair and hope over the past week. Karen and Dick co-founded The Democracy Cell Project, along with a group of remarkable citizen-activists, in 2004. They live in Washington DC.)

The understanding that Bush has provoked a "constitutional crisis" is taking root and spreading. Al Gore is expected to deliver a speech on Monday that is going to focus on this. (We will be there and hope to do a little live blogging, if possible.)

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In each of these dark times, the ideals on which the country was founded appeared to be headed for the junk heap of history. But time and again, the American people have ultimately returned to the arms of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The ability of the American people, again and again, to find ways to transcend these efforts to subvert freedom and liberty is the true exceptionalism that has made America a beacon of hope for lo these two centuries.

History shows that we can do what we need to do; the biggest obstacle is persuading enough people that all is not lost, and that by working together, as our ancestors have done repeatedly, we can win this fight.

As one of the spirituals would have it, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle."

http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2006/01/constitutional.html
via:http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/205211/848

[William769]

1. Boy does this needs to be yellow stickied here at DU!

"History shows that we can do what we need to do; the biggest obstacle is persuading enough people that all is not lost, and that by working together, as our ancestors have done repeatedly, we can win this fight."

[seabeyond]

3. i agree. every person i talk to say they dont even bother, there

is nothing we can do anyway, the nothing we can do anyway is what is taking down our nation, not bush.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. K&R!

I am quite anxious to hear President Gore's speech tomorrow.

He speaks for me.

[cantstandbush]

4. Keep repeating it. Take a page from the Rethug playbook. Say it over and

over, and over. And soon it will become a political reality.

"CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!" "CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!" "CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!"

[enough]

5. another k&r (nt)